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“What Happens When a Writer Hates the Heroine of Her New Book?” Excerpt from Nisha Susan’s The Women Who Forgot to Invent Facebook and Other Stories

October 4, 2020 By lsanchez

“In her second week at the library, she was choked. Somewhere in this building, she had been told, is an actual manuscript of the Divine Comedy. Dante Alighieri had not sat around in the 1300s writing coy shit. Somewhere near here, Arun Kolatkar had written Jejuri and the Kala Ghoda poems. Somewhere near here, Kolatkar had died. Where in her writing was the blood, the grime, the puking on the streets and the deep stuff?”    –Nisha Susan, excerpt from The Women Who Forgot to Invent Facebook and Other Stories, Huffington Post, August 10, 2020

Categories: Written Word
Tagged with: 2020, Authors, Books, Fiction, Humor, India, Libraries, Mumbai, Short Stories, Writing

“7 Circles of Library Hell” at Northwestern University

September 15, 2020 By lsanchez

“Periodicals: The most frigid and judgmental part of the library. If you even think of talking or breathing above a whisper, you will be violently shushed (and maybe shanked).”    –Caroline Brown, North by Northwestern, February 22, 2016

Categories: Visual Art & Architecture, Written Word
Tagged with: 2016, Circles of Hell, Colleges, Evanston, Hell, Humor, Illinois, Inferno, Libraries, Satan, Universities

“Dante’s Inferno has always been so funny to me…”

September 4, 2020 By Professor Elizabeth Coggeshall


“Dante’s Inferno has always been so funny to me because its this really important classic that is constantly referenced, but at the same time it’s really just a burn book. Dante Alighieri is Regina George and he wrote an entire book about a bunch of people he hates and why he hates them. Dante took out his pink gel pen and wrote out in big cursive letters: Achilles is a slut.”   —aphrodarling on tumblr (April 24, 2019)

Regina George is the antagonist of the 2004 film Mean Girls.

Contributed by Kate McKee (Bowdoin College ’22)

Categories: Digital Media, Written Word
Tagged with: 2019, Achilles, America, Blogs, Films, Humor, Inferno, Judgement, Social Media, The Canon, Tumblr

Carlos Saldanha, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009)

July 4, 2020 By Ezra Berman '23

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“In the movie Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009), Buck warns the troupe, ‘Abandon hope, ye who enter here!’”    —Wikipedia

Categories: Performing Arts
Tagged with: 2009, Abandon All Hope, Animation, Films, Humor, Inferno, Movies

Ivan Reitman, Ghostbusters II (1989)

July 4, 2020 By Ezra Berman '23

“In Ghostbusters II, the mayor of New York makes mention of the city being ‘sucked down into the tenth level of Hell.’”    —Wikipedia

Categories: Performing Arts
Tagged with: 1989, Films, Hell, Humor, Inferno, Movies, New York City, Politics, Tenth Circle

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